Susan Perkins
Associate Professor
Department of Managerial Studies
Contact
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University Hall 2207
Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Select Media Coverage of Research and Public Policy Op-Eds
- "Barack Obama: ‘If every nation on earth was run by women’ for 2 years, things would be better." Dec 16, 2019. CNBC.
- "Women in Charge: A New Record? Merkel, May, Clinton: A Hillary presidency would add to a worldwide shift in what power looks like." July 30, 2016. Politico.
- "The São Paulo Stock Exchange Expansion Would Be a Good Move." January 6, 2015. The Huffington Post.
- "For the Central African Republic, Hope Takes Female Form." January 23, 2014. The Washington Post.
- "Creating ‘Win-Win-Win’ Solutions." August 21, 2009. Kellogg in the News.
Selected Publications
- Perkins, S. (2022). “Institutional Distance versus Intra-Country Differences: Capturing and Leveraging the Diversity Within.” AIB Insights, Vol. 22, Issue 3.
- Toosi, N., Perkins, S., Cho, J., and Phillips, K.W. (2020). “Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Female Leadership: A Look at Nations, Organizations, and Teams, Research in Social Issues in Management.“
- Perkins, S. and Phillips, K. W. (2019) “Are Women Better at Leading Diverse Countries Than Men?” Harvard Business Review.
- Perkins, S. (2019). “The Dominance of Pyramidal Business Groups in Latin America Persist,” AIB Insights, Volume, 19(2).
- Perkins, S. and Minefee, I. (2015) “Jeitinho Brasileiro: Adopting Nonmarket Strategies in Brazil,” Routledge Companion to Nonmarket Strategy, Lawton, T.C. and Rajwani, T. (Eds.), Oxford, UK and New York, NY.
- Perkins, S. (2014). “When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Case of the Multinational Corporation,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(1):145-181.
- Perkins, S., Morck, R. and Yeung, B. (2014). “Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms,” Global Strategy Journal, 4: 310–330.
- Perkins, S. (2014). “Cross-national Variations in Industry Regulation: A Factor Analytic Approach with an Application to Telecommunications, Regulation & Governance,” 8: 149–163.
- Perkins, S., Phillips, K.W. and Pearce, N. (2013). “Ethnic Diversity, Gender, and National Leaders,” Journal of International Affairs, 67(1): 85-104.
Notable Honors
2020-2021, Faculty Fellowship, UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
2018-2019, Best MBA Professor, Corporate MBA Class at UIC Business
2016-2018, Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching, UIC Business
2011-2013, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
New York University New York, NY
Stern School of Business
PhD in Business Administration, Strategy and International Business
New York University New York, NY
Stern School of Business
MBA, International Business/Management
Fundação Getulio Vargas Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
International Management Program (joint MBA)
Howard University Washington, D.C.
School of Business
BBA, Marketing, Beta Gamma Sigma (Honors)